Fender Vintage Style Stratocaster/Telecaster Electric Guitar Pre-Slotted Bone Nut, Cream

Fits my year 2000 made in China Strat Affinity by Fender. I had to do some light sanding on the face of this nut that faces the tuner to fit into my nut slot, everything works good. Looks very good, I will use fender official again.

FlushNo glue and still in place

Fit a 99 mim strat almost perfectly

This nut will drop right in on a VINTAGE radius Fender neck....please note VINTAGE radius neck which is 7.25". If you have a 12" or 9.5" radius neck Fender makes another drop in nut. You could use this one...but it will require more sanding. Even then it's not much.To install...1) Go slow. I repeat GO SLOW. It's not going to take long....about 60-90 minutes from beginning to end.2) you need sandpaper. 300-400 grit works fine. Any courser and you'll take too much off too fast.3) Lay nut on it's side. Rub nut left and right...left and right across sandpaper. Stop and insert into nutslot on neck. When it goes into the slot with SLIGHT pressure....STOP you're done.4) Look at first picture. Cut strip of sandpaper that fits in between top frets.5) Rub nut left and right...only left and right across sandpaper laid across fretboard. It will maintain perfect radius on nut bottom and ensure best fit and the base of the nut will have consistent contact with neck all the way across the neck.6) repeat until it's at a height you're happy with.7) Look at second picture. Round off nut ends at bottom. This just makes it more comfortable on your hand.8) Use Elmer's glue or a SMALL amount of wood glue...by small I mean a couple of drops. DO NOT fill nut slot with glue...it's messy and unneeded. A couple of drops and string pressure will keep it in place.9) DO NOT USE SUPER GLUE....you'll never get it out without a lot of work or possibly damaging the neck.10) DO NOT USE SUPER GLUE....you'll never get it out without a lot of work or possibly damaging the neck.11) install strings and let dry for a couple of hours.12) using nut files, enlarge slots until you're happy with height string is sitting on in nut. You only need those inexpensive nut files that come in about a dozen different gauges in one single flip-out type metal box...like a Swiss Army knife type arrangement. You do not need the super expensive nut files from Stew-Mac etc, those are for blanks. This nut pre-slotted. File each string slot at the gauge each string will be. File down and slightly angled towards the tuner. The angle isn't sharp....but the low E angle will be slightly more pronounced than the high E. Feeler gauges are a plus..but you can get by without them.That's it.Honestly it is easy...if you doubt your ability...buy 2 nuts. It's still cheaper than paying a pro.There are SEVERAL YouTube video out there that can help.Remember...go slow and NO SUPER GLUE.

Much better than the plasticy nut that comes on a MIM strat. Strings glide through better and tremolo stays in tune a lot better.A couple cons preventing 5 stars:-It's taller than the stock nut by almost a full millimeter, so will have to be sanded or your action adjusted-It's just a tad to narrow to fit snugly in the slot for a MIM strat, so glue is an absolute necessity. I would recommend just a dab of superglue or wood glue. You will have to clamp it down for at least an hour with wood glue, and make sure not to use a metal clamp or you may damage the nut.

This was exactly, EXACTLY, what the doctor ordered for my Fender 50s Classic Series (MIM) Stratocaster. That guitar has a 7.5” radius neck and great build quality. But the plastic nut was just awful and would hang the strings on bends. Tuning was just terrible with that stock plastic nut. This nut needed only a few passes of sandpaper to fit snugly into the neck slot, and I really didn’t need to cut the slots much deeper than they came from the factory. The tuning on my guitar now is so, so, so much better!. Bends release properly, and tuning is super stable. This little $13 part transformed my guitar into a keeper!

I have a Traveler Ec1 that came used with a cheap plastic nut, after years of use the had strings dug into the plastic and ruined the playability. They had sunk so deep that some strings didn't even ring anymore. I decided to replace the nut and liked the option of this pre shaped one. After it arrived I removed the old nut (Which literally fell to pieces) and with little effort was able to install this one. The difference was night and day! The spacing is now perfect and the sound is bright and crisp! There is no alternative to bone!Pros:Made in the USAEasy to installPre shapedLong lifeGreat sound!Cons: None, so buy it already!Tip: Don't glue your nut into the slot, it isn't necessary. The tension of the strings will keep it there, and the wood will adjust to hold it snug. Glue generally just makes a mess and its better to do without it.

I used this to replace the nut on a Telecaster kit guitar that had too narrow of string spacing. This required some sanding of the bottom to get the nut height correct for my particular application but now the string spacing is exactly the same as my Fender Telecaster